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Remember learning this poetic ditty from your childhood? It was designed to help you recall how many days were in certain months. It started with "Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September ..." and so-on and so-on.

This type of rhyme or phrase that allows you to learn or remember something is called a

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My son was 3 years old when I realized he wasn't developing at the same pace as other children. He understood everything I said to him, but he could verbalize only a handful of words in return: Mama, no, bye-bye, Bobo (the name of our dog) and fish, which always ended with a drawn-out sssshhh sound that wrapped itself around my heart. I was slowly noticing the other toddlers at...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr., a human-resources expert, is tackling your questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional society. The questions are submitted by readers, and Taylor's answers below have been edited for length and clarity. Have a question? Do you have an HR or...

That sweetness should have a stone hiding somewhere, we learn early. Childhoods turn everything into a moral — and so this too registers as other memorised adages. Soon after, as if to test the moral, its rhyme arrives — jaam, part of the rhyming couplet of a Bengali summer (aam-jaam and sometimes part of the trinityaam-jaam-kathal — mango-Indian blackberry-jackfruit). The...

CORBIN — Betty Gibson Comer, with the love of music from her father, started teaching piano lessons 50 years ago to students for $2 a lesson. Her business, Gibson’s Music, is currently celebrating 50 years in operation. Many of Betty’s students recall what is was like learning from the woman so devoted to the piano. Karen Farris of Corbin started receiving piano lessons from...

After dedicating the majority of their teaching careers to Cedar Hollow School, two teachers are retiring at the end of the school year. First grade teacher Doreen Grupe has taught for 35 years — 25 at Cedar Hollow. Prior to teaching at the school, she taught for Grand Island Public Schools at Barr and Walnut middle schools. Music teacher Joan Browning said she has taught at...

Ten-year-old Sia Gupta has been writing poetry since she was 8 and by the age of 9 was working on a series called Tales in Rhyme which is a retelling of fairy tales in verse. On May 3, she released not one but four books at an event in the India Habitat Centre, Delhi. Published by Om Books, all of them pick up a fairy tale and retell it in poetic form. "I love reading poetry,...

Presenting latest punjabi song Do You Remember sung by Jordan Sandhu. The music of new punjabi song is given by Desi Crew while lyrics are penned by Bunty Bains. Enjoy and stay connected with us !!
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